Fastener for shoes



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I. J. SAUNDERS.

FASTENER FOR SHOES, 8w.

' No; 282,571. Patented Aug. '7, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC IRA J. SAUNDERS, OF UNION CITY, MICHIGAN.

.FAST-ENER FOR SHOES, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,571, dated August 7, 1883.

' Application filed April 4, iee. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRA J. SAUNDERS, re

siding at Union City, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Shoes, 850., of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which' Figure 1 is aperspective view of two pieces of material fastened together by ,my improved fastener; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the two pieces of material; Fig. 3, an under view of the two pieces of material, showing one of my improved fasteners applied; Fig. 4, a side view, and Fig. 5 a perspective view, of my improved fastener detached.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction and application of the fastener heretofore patented to me 5 and its nature consists in providing the spring-fasteners with shoulders for spreading the points, combined with points adapted to passthrough the material and make an even and smoothclinch on the under side, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents a piece of material to which the fastener is permanently attached; B, a section of the connecting-piece;

a, the spring-fastener; I), eyelet in the section B; c, a projection of the spring-catch; d, shoulders, and e f sharp-points for penetrating and passing through the material and clinching on.

jection or catch, 0, for holding the eyelet or are double, as shown, and are shorter than the point e.

The fastener is pressed through the fabric by a suitable tool, which clinches it on the other side, turning the points toward each other, the point e passing between the points f, as shown in Fig. 3, thus making a smooth under metallic surface where the clinch occurs, and the applying of one side of the clinch upon the other is by this method of forming the points avoided. In applying this fastening no hole or cut in the fabric is required, as it can be ,applied from the upper surface, and the yielding of the material will be sufficient for the spring action of the fastening without the cutting away of any portion of the fabric or material, even when appliedto shoe-leather, thus making a neat fastening, having its spring, at the bottom, easily applied and strongly attached.

This fastening, while mainly designedto be applied to shoes, is equally well adapted, by making it lighter in form, to gloves and to other articles of wearing apparel for which this method offastening is applicable. A sin gle point, f, adapted to fold at the side of e in clinching, may be used in place of the two shown.

I do not claim the method or system of fast-- ders d, and the clinching-points e and f, said shoulders spreading the points at a distance from each other, and also serving as a rest for the eyelet which engages the locking projection, substantially as described.

IRA J. SAUNDERS.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERT H. ADAMS, EDGAR T. BOND. 

